Hello everyone,

A couple of days ago I was sitting around in my room watching TV and my computer was sitting there idling... All of a sudden I see that it restarts by itself... I find it a bit weird but I let it be and when it comes back up to windows it only lasts about a minute and restarts again... I reset the BIOS to default and it kept doing it. The more it restarted, the less time it would stay on... After a while, I couldn't even work with BIOS because it would restart.

I tested the RAM and it was fine.. HDDs were fine as well. So I went to CompUSA (hate that place... no one knows what they're talking about) and got me a new i7 920 chip and put it in a WHAT DO YA KNOW? It works... My guess is that somehow the chip I had was burned out by the OC I had on it?

Here are the settings I had in BIOS to the best of my memory:

BCLK: 190 (3.8ghz)
QPI/DRAM: 1.35
DRAM voltage: 1.66

RAM was running at 1523mhz and at rated timings of 7-7-7-24

I had tested the processor with those settings for stability for hours and hours while I was at work and it was stable with both OCCT and Prime95.

I don't want to OC this one until I get some thoughts on what may have happened to that old one

Thank you all,

Andy

Hey Nick. I know you're very busy finishing up GEX EU and I know you don't have a lot of time to post, so I really appreciate you taking a look at this.

I was very worried about what it was that caused it, and am now very cautious to proceed to the OC stage with this new one (also a C0/C1 proc). I just installed it today afternoon and everything seems to be running quite well, so I'm wondering if it is safe to proceed to OC'ing it now or should I wait a few days while running tests on it with prime and OCCT?